‘Bebo for adults’ social networking site sees meteoric growth

IS Bertie Ahern among the 125,000 new users to sign up to Facebook since January?

Well, according to new user details compiled yesterday, he very well could be — as the information showed around 20 members of staff at the department of An Taoiseach have signed up to the website.

The figures, compiled by IT analyst Damien Mulley, show the number of Irish people using the social networking website rocketed from just 6,000 to 131,000 in the past nine months.